On June 20,
1948, the ship Altalena arrived in Israel carrying 930 World War II refugees.
Also on board, ammunition amassed by the Irgun in direct violation of
Ben Gurion's new military chain-of-command. Nearly igniting a civil war
in the newly-established country, Ben Gurion gave the order to fire the
ship. “The mind-boggling fact,” writes the Jewish Forward,
“of Jew firing on Jew and the power play between Begin and Ben-Gurion
make this extraordinary documentary a must-see!"

“The
riveting footage, emotion-wracked recollections by participants on both
sides, the mind-boggling fact of Jew firing on Jew and the power play
between Begin and Ben-Gurion make this extraordinary documentary a must-see!
- Jewish Forward

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